(VOVWORLD) -Nearly 200 photos and documents featuring President Ho Chi Minh’s life and career are on display at an exhibition entitled “Ho Chi Minh – Desire for National Independence” which opened in Paris on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Increasing rights for workers when getting sick or during maternity leave was one of the major discussions on the draft social insurance law at Monday’s National Assembly session.

(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly deputies on Monday discussed the draft revised Law on Social Insurance, particularly the best regulatory options to ensure the life of retirees.

(VOVWORLD) - Saudi Arabia appointed a new ambassador to Syria on Sunday, the kingdom's first envoy to Damascus since the two countries cut diplomatic ties in 2012.

(VOVWORLD) - Five Sahel nations have been holding a major military drill in western Niger, Niger's defense ministry said on Sunday, the first such exercise in a region wracked by jihadist violence.

(VOVWORLD) - North Korea has notified Japan it plans to launch a rocket carrying a satellite toward the Yellow Sea and east of Luzon Island between May 27 and June 4, the Japan Coast Guard said Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam has kept a high growth momentum, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -From the first two officers deployed to South Sudan in 2014, the Vietnam People's Army has to date sent more than 800 officers and professional soldiers as individuals and units to UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan, Central African Republic, Abyei Area and UN headquarters.

(VOVWORLD) -In the list of 71 most beautiful streets in the world surveyed late last month by the American magazine Architectural Digest, there is a beautiful street in Vietnam’s Hoi An ancient town.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese billiard player Tran Duc Minh won the Three-Cushion World Cup for the first time in a dramatic victory over South Korean Kim Tae-jun.